Google just announced its newest product ‘Wave’ that is coming this year. Wave has the ability to change the way everybody communicates, forever, in much the same way that email did when it became common place.
It combines aspects of Wikis, IM, Email and version control into a single product that changes the way people communicate. I can already see how it would make communicating with family, friends and coworkers much more fun and immediate. Click the link for more info and a loooooong video demonstration of it in action. If you are not excited about it, you don’t know enough about it yet.
Its now days until E3, the biggest event of the year in the gaming world, and our game DJ Hero, is finally showing its face and announcing details.
We also announced the involvement of Jay-Z and Eminem to the project to join DJ Shadow, DJ Z-Trip and DJ AM - including a limited edition version of the game featuring Jay-Z and Eminem. More info here.
Its great to finally be able to reveal some details about the project that I have been working on for a good long while now and am absolutely thrilled at the response that the game has got so far. Keep your eye out for more details!
Christmas has been and gone, but the real gifts came after Christmas this year with the Steam sale. If you have not already done so, check it out! I decided to treat myself and buy a few things that looked interesting. I had Prince of Persia on order from Play, but they have completely failed to get any in stock and my order seems to be stuck in the ether (although they did take my money…), so I bought it on Steam. I also bought Beyond Good And Evil and the X3 pack. Just before Christmas I bought Bioshock and had slowly been working through that. I am a bit sour about this, as I bought it a week before the sale when they dropped the price by 75% (from 13 something to 3 something).
I set myself a challenge this Christmas. I’m going to re-implement the core of icLogic in a week. I’m probably going to regret it, but it should be fun at least. I learned a lot last time and I’ve pretty much got the maths nailed this time so it won’t be so much of a chore. So far I’ve got quite far. I’ve been at it a day and I already have the complete render engine working bar the clipping.
Today I had a spare few hours and I thought I would have a quick look at the Arctic engine and see if I can make any progress with it. Hah. Things are never that easy…
Some of you may have noticed that the site has a new layout and was down for a week or so. The reason for the change was I recently switched to a new host (HostMonster) because I was running dangerously low on disk space for my account and wanted to expand the site a bit. The new site works on WordPress with a custom theme. Let me know if you have any comments!
To say that 2008 has been a phenomenal year for gaming would be an understatement. We’ve seen more top games this year than any year past. I won’t drone on, here is a small selection of what made this year great, and what more we have to look forward to.
I’ve just been attempting to play a game I’ve had sitting in my stack of disks for a while now - Heroes of Might and Magic V.
Heres the thing… Ubisoft have not made this easy. At all. People constantly whine that PC gaming is so much more of a hassle than console gaming, and after an experience like this, I totally agree…
